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Millgram, Elijah | Iris Murdoch. Existentialists and Mystics (Book Review) | Three of the essays in this career-spanning collection make up Dame Iris Murdoch's The Sovereignty of Good, a little classic which I regularly assign in my ethics courses. When I do, some of the students who have been impressed by it pick up one or another of her novels, and of those students, s... | Philosophy; Book Review | 1998 |
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Battin, Margaret P. | To die or not to die? cross-disciplinary, cultural, and legal perspectives on the right to choose death | One things to lament, as public discussion of the right to die approaches a rolling boil, is the insularity of American View about withholding and with-drawing treatment, euthanasia and suicide. To Die or Not to Die? presents ten papers which challenge this insularity from the points of view of vary... | | 1992 |
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Thalos, Mariam G. | The lens of chemistry | Chemistry possesses a distinctive theoretical lens?a distinctive set of theoretical concerns regarding the dynamics and transformations of a perplexing variety of organic and nonorganic substances?to which it must be faithful. Even if it is true that chemical facts bear a special (reductive) relati... | | 2012 |
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Nichols, Shaun | Normativity and epistemic intuitions | In this paper we propose to argue for two claims. The first is that a sizable group of epistemological projects -- a group which includes much of what has been done in epistemology in the analytic tradition -- would be seriously undermined if one or more of a cluster of empirical hypotheses about ep... | Epistemology; Intuition; Empirical hypotheses | 2001 |
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Battin, Margaret P. | Suicidology and the right to die | As suicidology reflects on the issue of the right to die, it can make no bigger mistake than by seeing suicide and suicidal behavior in short-sighted isolation, without reference to the cultural context within which it occurs. Two kinds of myopia currently afflict us in particularly constricting way... | | 1993 |
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Francis, Leslie | Knitting | My grandmother had long silver hair, high blood pressure, and congestive heart failure. She wore the silver hair in a bun during the day and in a braid at night. I remember her sitting in the day parlor of my grandparents? southern Illinois bungalow, telling the same stories of their small town, ove... | | 2008 |
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Hanna, Patricia Lee | Education, society, and human nature: an introduction to the Philosophy; of education (book review) | A review of the book "Education, society, and human nature: an introduction to the Philosophy; of education" by Anthony O'Hear. | Books, reviews; Education, Philosophy | 1982-07 |
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Battin, Margaret P. | To die or not to die? (Book Review) | Reviews the book `To Die or Not to Die? Cross-disciplinary, Cultural, and Legal Perspectives on the Right to Choose Death,' edited by Arthur S. Berger and Joyce Berger. | Books; Law; Death | 1992-07 |
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White, Nicholas P. | Making a necessity of Virtue (Book Review) | Reviews the book `Making a Necessity of Virtue,' by Nancy Sherman. | Books; Philosophy;; Virtue | 2001-09-18 |
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White, Nicholas P. | Stoic values | RM: Copyright © 1990, The Monist: An International Journal of General Philosophical Inquiry, Peru, Illinois, U.S.A., 61354, reproduced by permission. Discusses the values of Stoicism which say noting concrete about how a virtuous person should go about making choices and examines the Stoics im... | Virtuous; Indifferent; Worth | 1990 |
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Haber, Matthew | Reframing the ethical issues in part-human animal research: the unbearable ontology of inexorable moral confusion | Research that involves the creation of animals with human-derived parts opens the door to potentially valuable scientific and therapeutic advances, yet invokes unsettling moral questions. Critics and champions alike stand to gain from clear identification and careful consideration of the strongest e... | | 2012-01-01 |
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Francis, Leslie | A wrongful case for parental tort liability | Malek and Daar [M&D] argue that parents have a duty to employ prenatal genetic diagnosis (PGD) if they undergo IVF knowing they are at risk of transmitting a serious genetic condition. Although M&D limit their analysis to parents already undergoing PGD, in which they say the parental obligation is s... | | 2012-01-01 |
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Landesman, Bruce M. | Violence, terrorism and justice eds. Frey, R. G., & Morris, C., Christopher W. (Review) | Consider two views about terrorism. The first, the conventional view, is that terrorism is an outrage. It involves, typically, the kidnapping, killing, and intimidation of innocent people who simply happen to be in the wrong place. Terrorists are fanatics, thugs, criminals, deranged individuals, wh... | Kill; Assault; terrorist | 1993 |
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Thalos, Mariam G. | Trouble with superselection accounts of measurement | Argues that the superselection accounts of measurement exploit excess structure illegitimately and in the process become self-contradictory. Superselection rule in the quantum-mechanical treatment of phenomena; Representation of indicator states of detectors by eigenspaces of superselection operatio... | Superselection; Quantum mechanics | 1998-11 |
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Landesman, Bruce M. | Berman, Marshall. Adventures in marxism | This book contains an introduction and thirteen short pieces previously published in such journals as the Nation, the New York Times Book Review, New Politics, and Dissent, dating from 1963 to 1998. | Capitalism; Human; System | 2001 |
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Millgram, Elijah | Was Hume a Humean? | When it comes to talking about practical reasoning, "Humean" is a synonym for "instrumentalist." That is, a "Humean" view of practical reasoning is one on which only means-end reasoning directed toward satisfying antecedently given desires counts as practical reasoning at all. Witness, for instance... | Humean; Humeanism | 1995 |
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White, Nicholas P. | Plato's Ethics (Book Review) | Reviews the book `Plato's Ethics,' by Terence Irwin. | Books; Plato; Ethics | 2001-09-16 |
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Downes, Stephen M. | Review of Susan Oyama, Ontogeny of information: developmental systems and evolution | Susan Oyama's book thoroughly deserved reprinting. This is an exciting and engaging work that is still timely 15 years after its initial publication. Some of the text of the new edition is revised, and Oyama has added a new Preface and an Afterword. The new Foreword by Richard Lewontin provides a s... | Information theory; Biology; Information gene concept; Morphological traits | 2001 |
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Plutynski, Anya | Strategies of model building in population genetics | In 1966, Richard Levins argued that there are different strategies in model building in population biology. In this paper, I reply to Orzack and Sober's (1993) critiques of Levins and argue that his view on modeling strategies apply also in the context of evolutionary genetics. In particular, I arg... | | 2006 |
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Thalos, Mariam G. | Common need for classical epistemological foundations: against a feminist alternative | The difficulties of justifying a recipe for scientific inquiry that calls for sensory experience and logic as sole ingredients can hardly be overestimated. Resolving the riddles of induction, steadily mounting against empiricism since Hume, has come to seem like an exercise in making bricks without... | Epistomology; Feminism; Sensory experience; Logic; Inductive inference | 1994 |
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Battin, Margaret P. | Seven caveats concerning the discussion of euthanasia in Holland | As the discussion of voluntary active euthanasia heats up in the United States (indeed, I believe it will be the major social issue of the next decade, replacing abortion in that role), increasing attention is being given to its practice in the Netherlands. Proponents of the view that the United Sta... | | 1990 |
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Battin, Margaret P. | Aging and ethics: philosophical problems in gerontology | Aging and Ethics addresses a crucial issue: In order to address the dilemmas aging poses concerning distributive justice in health care, don't we need to rethink both the personal and social significance of old age? | | 1993 |
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Downes, Stephen M. | Heredity and heritability | Philosophical discussions of heredity have focused on the sustainability of heritability analyses and more recently on the units of heredity. Here I introduce the concept of heritability and the problems associated with it. Next the units of heredity discussion is introduced. Here I consider alterna... | DNA; Heredity; Heritability | 2004-07-15 |
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Newman, Lex | Rocking the foundations of cartesian knowledge: critical notice of Janet Broughton, descartes's method of doubt | Janet Broughton's Descartes's Method of Doubt†1 is a systematic study of the role of doubt in Descartes's epistemology. The book has two parts. Part 1 focuses on the development of doubt in the First Meditation, exploring such topics as the motivation behind methodic doubt; the targeted audience... | Super-indubitables; Canonical circularity; Clear and distinct truths' | 2004-01 |
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Kukathas, Chandran | Looking backward: a critical appraisal of communitarian thought (Book Review) | Reviews the book `Looking Backward: A Critical Appraisal of Communitarian Thought,' by Derek L. Phillips. | Books; Communitarianism; Philosophy | 2001-09-17 |
